Joana Meroz Joana Meroz is a design researcher, conceptually and in practice. In 2006 she received her B.F.A. in Autonomous Art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and in July 2009 she graduated cum laude from the “Conceptual Design in Context” Masters of Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven. Presently she is a researcher at the Design History Foundation and is following the M.A. “Comparative Arts and Media Studies” at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, for which she is investigating representation and design. Currently her main interest is “meta design”: functional objects which communicate to the viewer that they should be interpreted as representations of functional pieces as well as being “real” functional objects themselves. 2009 Dec 19 2009 Nov 13 About News Objects Projects Essays Exhibitions Publications CV Contact